Walking Tours

Our Walking Tours

Boston By Foot tours offer opportunities for visitors and locals to explore Boston’s cityscape and discover its history with a passionate and knowledgeable guide. Core tours are offered on a daily and weekly basis during the April-November tour season, while others are offered monthly or quarterly. All tours are available upon request as a private tour at any time.

View tours by frequency, topic or by schedule by accessing our calendar. Each tour page contains detailed information about each of our offerings. We look forward to sharing our love of Boston with you!

PLEASE NOTE: Registration for all public walking tours closes one hour before tour start time.

Daily & Weekly

Beacon Hill Cobblestone Street with Brick Homes

Beacon Hill

Walk past the stunning Federal and Greek Revival row homes along Beacon Hill's charming streets

tour duration90 minutes

tour distance0.93 mile

likely uneven surfaces and significant inclines

Our Walking Tours

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Walk past the stunning Federal and Greek Revival row homes along Beacon Hill's charming streets

This child's-eye view of the Freedom Trail is specially designed for young walkers (ages 6-12)

Hear tales of misery, misfortune and murder - all based on true historic events!

The perfect introduction to Boston’s Revolutionary history

Explore Boston’s oldest neighborhood and discover the charm of this unique, compact city space

Discover how Boston’s urban landscape has changed as you uncover the clues left behind

Ideal for history lovers and those interested in our nation’s Revolutionary past.

Stroll along a section of the Emerald Necklace designed by landscape architect Fredrick Law Olmsted

Explore Boston’s Back Bay, home to one of the United States’ richest collections of art and architecture

Discover this hidden neighborhood that has maintained its residential charm amidst the surrounding city

Learn why Boston's Back Bay is considered a marvel of 19th Century engineering

Explore 12,000 years of human activity on Shawmut Peninsula, the lands we now call Boston

Celebrate the life of Boston-born Benjamin Franklin by visiting his homes and haunts in Colonial Boston

Discover stories of Boston’s Black writers who were laser-focused on the great topic of the era - slavery

Explore Boston's rebirth after the Great Fire of 1872, a more costly disaster than the Chicago Fire the year before

Visit one of Boston’s most vibrant neighborhoods, and one of the few surviving Chinatowns on the East Coast

Learn about Boston's upper-class during the late 19th century - their favorite haunts and their social activism

Travel in the footsteps of Boston’s 19th and 20th century gay and lesbian friends

Hear the stories of Bostonians who remained loyal to the British crown

Find out how this transportation and entertainment hub is also becoming a thriving residential neighborhood

Take an in-depth look at the people, trends and events that led to Boston's architectural evolution

Visit the heart of Victorian Boston while strolling along the city's Grand Boulevard

Travel across the Charles and visit a fascinating neighborhood called one of America's industrial powerhouses

Explore two waterfront neighborhoods with the same roots but a completely different look and feel

Journey to Victorian Boston and see where writers and poets including Emerson, Alcott and Thoreau gathered

Learn where Boston’s Jewish West End residents worked, lived and worshipped - including The Vilna Shul

Relive a young boy's adventures in Colonial Boston based on the prize-winning, coming-of-age novel

Discover what was once the hub of New England’s leather and shoe industries at the turn of the 20th century

See Alcott’s Boston homes and hear the stories that inspired the beloved author of Little Women

This child's-eye view of Boston's North End is specially designed for young walkers (ages 6-12)

Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood was home to remarkable women who changed the course of the history

Explore the historical and social context of an architectural style that has put Boston on the international map

Stroll through Boston's beautiful new “People’s Park” that annually attracts over a million residents and visitors

A visionary concept in urban planning, Rowes Wharf remains at the center of 21st century Boston

Our special annual 3-hour July 4th event!

For more than 30 years, this tour has been part of any great Halloween celebration in Boston.

New for 2024! Discover a trove of unknown and underappreciated works of art

New for 2024! Join us to discover the many lives of Boston Common and its people

New for 2024! Explore the ins and outs of Boston's historic City Hall

New for 2024! Explore the life and influence of patriot Samuel Adams

New for 2024! Explore Massachusetts' long and complex history of slavery